Zone Files Missing?

[redcamel]

I got an email from WHM that my server’s IP resolved to “.” I went to correct the problem via ssh, however when looking in /var/named all my zone files were gone. I then logged into WHM and could see the zones there. Where are my zone files at? Why can I see them in WHM and not in a shell?

[aby]

I got an email from WHM that my server’s IP resolved to “.” I went to correct the problem via ssh, however when looking in /var/named all my zone files were gone. I then logged into WHM and could see the zones there. Where are my zone files at? Why can I see them in WHM and not in a shell?

Did you try a locate command from shell and see if the zone files are there?

[redcamel]

When I use ls in the /var/named directory there are no .db files. They were here before not sure why I can't find them, but DNS appears to be ok? Are the files in a differant directory wiht WHM 10.6.0

[Zaf]

When I use ls in the /var/named directory there are no .db files. They were here before not sure why I can't find them, but DNS appears to be ok? Are the files in a differant directory wiht WHM 10.6.0

Just repeating what Aby said there. Try this:
# locate -u
# locate domain.tld.db

Replace domain.tld with any domain name hosted on your server e.g. # locate abcdef.com.db

[redcamel]

They are in the /etc directory! But why and how???

[aby]

They are in the /etc directory! But why and how???

I guess your OS is freebsd. There the zone files are found at
/etc/namedb
and you normally have a link from that directory to /var/named

[redcamel]

Nope....CentOS. They were in the /var/named, but somehow they have been moved to /etc. Any ideas?

[avijit]

Check the /etc/named.conf

Where are the zone files are being kept ?

Does it look like :

zone "localhost" IN {
        type master;
        file "/var/named/localhost.zone";
        allow-update { none; };
};

or

zone "localhost" IN {
        type master;
        file "/etc/localhost.zone";
        allow-update { none; };
};

Is the ...

options {
        directory "/var/named";
        /*
         * If there is a firewall between you and nameservers you want
         * to talk to, you might need to uncomment the query-source
         * directive below.  Previous versions of BIND always asked
         * questions using port 53, but BIND 8.1 uses an unprivileged
         * port by default.
         */
        // query-source address * port 53;
};

Changed to ..

options {
        directory "/etc";
        /*
         * If there is a firewall between you and nameservers you want
         * to talk to, you might need to uncomment the query-source
         * directive below.  Previous versions of BIND always asked
         * questions using port 53, but BIND 8.1 uses an unprivileged
         * port by default.
         */
        // query-source address * port 53;
};